Conde Nast: BKK article
Jun 17th, 2006, 06:50 AM
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Conde Nast: BKK article
Pardon me if this has already been mentioned here.
I was waiting for my TA the other day, and I picked up a Traveler magazine (March 06) and found a wonderful article on BKK. The photos of Sky Bar and Bed Supper Club are great. It's neat to look in a magazine and say, "I've been there, I've done that..." All our BKK regulars here in downstate Illinois have now seen the article and are happy to see a positive spin put on our favorite city.
Oh, and then I asked the TA if she would "throw away that issue in my direction" and she said I should just take it.
Further inspection, the article following BKK was hilltop towns in France and Italy. I was pleased to see one I've visited... Civita de Bagnoreggio (sp).
Carol
I was waiting for my TA the other day, and I picked up a Traveler magazine (March 06) and found a wonderful article on BKK. The photos of Sky Bar and Bed Supper Club are great. It's neat to look in a magazine and say, "I've been there, I've done that..." All our BKK regulars here in downstate Illinois have now seen the article and are happy to see a positive spin put on our favorite city.
Oh, and then I asked the TA if she would "throw away that issue in my direction" and she said I should just take it.
Further inspection, the article following BKK was hilltop towns in France and Italy. I was pleased to see one I've visited... Civita de Bagnoreggio (sp).
Carol
Jun 17th, 2006, 08:56 AM
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Actually, fuzzy, yes. BKK is right there at the top of my long list. Sydney is number two, btw.
BKK is exotic and exciting and friendly. It's soooo different from small town midwest USA. I love all the activity, the hotels, the food, my friends there. What's not to love about BKK? Would I want to live there, probably not. But I always enjoy my twice a year visits and wish they could be much longer than just a couple of weeks.
Carol
BKK is exotic and exciting and friendly. It's soooo different from small town midwest USA. I love all the activity, the hotels, the food, my friends there. What's not to love about BKK? Would I want to live there, probably not. But I always enjoy my twice a year visits and wish they could be much longer than just a couple of weeks.
Carol
Jun 17th, 2006, 09:38 AM
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Actually, bradinbangkok has invited about a half dozen of his friends, and each one has returned (some return VERY often).
DH and I have tried to get friends from Germany and Italy to join us in BKK sometime. I think Germany will actually do it in the next couple of years. Italy? Not..
BKK regulars from the midwest are the reason BKK is booming!!! lol
Carol
Actually, bradinbangkok has invited about a half dozen of his friends, and each one has returned (some return VERY often).
DH and I have tried to get friends from Germany and Italy to join us in BKK sometime. I think Germany will actually do it in the next couple of years. Italy? Not..
BKK regulars from the midwest are the reason BKK is booming!!! lol
Carol
Jun 18th, 2006, 05:40 AM
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Hi Jed,
I like BKK well enough - there's loads to see and the street life is vibrant and the food is great even when it's cheap and cheerful. It is for sure a place I would rather stop in than Singapore. But my favourite city - NO. Because the traffic is outrageous; the air quality is appalling, and it is frequently very ugly.
Yep, many other cities in Asia share those unappealing characteristics - but then we weren't just talking about Asia were we? We were talking about favourite cities anywhere?
I like BKK well enough - there's loads to see and the street life is vibrant and the food is great even when it's cheap and cheerful. It is for sure a place I would rather stop in than Singapore. But my favourite city - NO. Because the traffic is outrageous; the air quality is appalling, and it is frequently very ugly.
Yep, many other cities in Asia share those unappealing characteristics - but then we weren't just talking about Asia were we? We were talking about favourite cities anywhere?
Jun 19th, 2006, 04:18 AM
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We like BKK but I think overall- scenery, cleanliness, climate, etc I probably would put Sydney at the top. There were no negatives for Sydney- every aspect was great! (Ok it does not get top billing for exotic)
Jun 19th, 2006, 04:58 AM
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If I have to spell it out for you fuzzy:
INSTEAD OF SAYING YOU DON'T LIKE BANGKOK, SINGAPORE OR WHATEVER, WHY DON'T YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING YOU DO LIKE.
Does this make it any clearer? What rattles my cage is you never seem to have anything positive to say. Also you seem to have a bigoted stereotypical view of Americans which you have expressed on at least two recent posts.
INSTEAD OF SAYING YOU DON'T LIKE BANGKOK, SINGAPORE OR WHATEVER, WHY DON'T YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING YOU DO LIKE.
Does this make it any clearer? What rattles my cage is you never seem to have anything positive to say. Also you seem to have a bigoted stereotypical view of Americans which you have expressed on at least two recent posts.
Jun 20th, 2006, 06:58 PM
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I just watched a very enjoyable program on Thailand on HD Theater. There were interesting segments on Thai silks, dance, ceramics, shadow puppets, beaches (Koh Chang looks great) and the Eastern & Oriental Express train, besides a number of other things.
You can take the Orient Express for a "short" ride from BKK to CM. Sounds delightful... for $1050 per person, dbl occupancy, incl meals and coffee and tea AND sightseeing during a stop in Ayutayah (sp). And at $1050, that's the "cheap seats" (smallest compartment) on the train. The trip is from 10:30 in the morning, stopping in CM for the afternoon, and then over night on to CM, arriving in the morning. Quite an expensive way to get to CM...
But in any case, the program was really very well done. If you have HD channels, you should check out this program sometime.
Oh, I found out that "hanuman" is the name of a monkey god!
You can take the Orient Express for a "short" ride from BKK to CM. Sounds delightful... for $1050 per person, dbl occupancy, incl meals and coffee and tea AND sightseeing during a stop in Ayutayah (sp). And at $1050, that's the "cheap seats" (smallest compartment) on the train. The trip is from 10:30 in the morning, stopping in CM for the afternoon, and then over night on to CM, arriving in the morning. Quite an expensive way to get to CM...
But in any case, the program was really very well done. If you have HD channels, you should check out this program sometime.
Oh, I found out that "hanuman" is the name of a monkey god!
Jun 20th, 2006, 08:54 PM
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Craig, if you had been offended by those couple of posts you alluded to, it would have been much better to deal with them there rather than allowing your angst to spill over into this one. As this particular thread stands (and for those of us unaware of what you are alluding to), it does appear that you spit the dummy over a harmless/friendly jibe.
Jun 21st, 2006, 12:11 AM
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I think the matter has been raised on other posts where fuzzy has made anti-American remarks but it doesn't stop him/her making them. They really irritate me too - and I am not even American but British! I just find indiscriminate dislike of any group of people hard to stomach.
There is also a consistency in making negative and provocative comments and not positive ones. Nice positive comments do appear to be few and far between when it comes to Thailand. I often wonder why one would bother continuing to read the thailand forum posts - but I am thinking that reading posts in which one is not interested is just an unusual way of filling empty moments and that it is a pity that the poster can't find something more fulfilling and worthwhile to do.
There is also a consistency in making negative and provocative comments and not positive ones. Nice positive comments do appear to be few and far between when it comes to Thailand. I often wonder why one would bother continuing to read the thailand forum posts - but I am thinking that reading posts in which one is not interested is just an unusual way of filling empty moments and that it is a pity that the poster can't find something more fulfilling and worthwhile to do.
